Jamaican Plays

Kieran King Launches Eight Seven Six Theatre Company

Today’s Gleaner newspaper carries an item on the recent launch of Kieran King’s Eight Seven Six Theatre Company. Kieran King chose last week Thursday to present the Eight Seven Six theatre company at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts (PSCCA) … more here

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Keiran King’s Last Call

Keiran King’s Eight Seven Six Productions presents LAST CALL, opening this Friday, July 29, at the Philip Sherlock Centre at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Campus. This play will be open for a limited run, and features Sakina Deer, Maurice Bryan, Shayne Powell, Andrew Lawrence and Rishille Pelicie. For bookings or more [...]

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Four Shows In Aid Of The Theatre Artistes Benevolent Fund

The Jamaica Association of Dramatic Artists presents four shows only, in aid of the Theatre Artistes Benevolent Fund: Christine Ann Bell in Josephine’s Night Out (by Basil Dawkins, directed by Eugene Williams) Rishille Bellamy Pelicie and Keiran King in Ms. Burton Gets A Promotion (by Amba Chevannes, directed by Nadean Rawlins) When? Friday, October 15 [...]

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Review – Backstage Play

In today’s Gleaner newspaper, Keiran King delivers an extremely critical review of Karl Hart’s Backstage play. The downfall of Karl Hart’s fourth play is that the odds aren’t long enough. In Backstage, a fictional cast and crew take a show from script to stage. We see a reading of the script, a number of rehearsals, [...]

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Brian Heap Responds To Keiran King Regarding Appropriate Behaviour

In today’s Gleaner newspaper, Brian Heap (of the University Players) has issued a stinging response to Keiran King’s own recent stinging review of the Appropriate Behaviour play. According to Heap, “King’s attempts to appear dispassionate in his latest outing as reviewer (in The Gleaner of May 10) fail most miserably when he made a distinctly [...]

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